In this overview Paul Sax from Harvard Medical School and Mark Sulkowski from Johns Hopkins discuss selected highlights from this fall's Interscience Conference on Microbial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC), IDWeek, and the European AIDS Conference. The newsletter is available to all for free, with continuing medical education (CME) credit available for physicians and nurses.

Topics in the latest Positive Pulse newsletter include new antiretroviral therapies for HIV, cardiovascular disease and bone loss in people with HIV, and experimental hepatitis C treatments for HIV/HCV coinfected patients.